Nicholas Dujmovic – Visiting Professor

Nicholas Dujmovic is a visiting assistant professor of politics and the director of the University’s new program in intelligence studies. He came to Catholic University after retiring from the Central Intelligence Agency in June 2016 with 26 years of service as an intelligence officer as well as 14 years in the United States Coast Guard.

Professor Dujmovic teaches an introductory course on American intelligence and an upper-level course focusing on the issues that arise when intelligence activities are conducted by a democracy. He coordinates the inclusion of other intelligence-related courses at the University toward an undergraduate minor in Intelligence.

Professor Dujmovic brings a wealth of personal experience to the study of intelligence. He joined CIA in 1990 as an analyst on the USSR and East Europe, and later was a speechwriter for the Director of Central Intelligence, editor of the President’s Daily Brief, and a manager of analysts working on Southeast Asian issues. Dr. Dujmovic was a member of the CIA History Staff for eleven years, from 2005 to 2016, where he also served on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Intelligence and directed the Oral History program. Most of his historical work at CIA was classified, but his unclassified work on Agency operations, culture, and historiography has appeared in various books and journals. He also taught a graduate seminar on intelligence at American University from 2013 to 2015.

He is a deacon of the Orthodox Church and serves the Protection of the Holy Mother of God Orthodox Church in Falls Church, Virginia.

Selected Publications

“Hearts and Minds: The CIA as White Hats in the Cold War.” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (Spring 2016).

“Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and CIA: A Reappraisal.” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (Spring 2013).

“Bonum Ex Malo: The Value of Legacy of Ashes in Teaching CIA History,” in Christopher Moran, ed., Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 (Edinburgh University Press, February 2013).

“Drastic Actions Short of War: The Origins and Application of CIA’s Covert Paramilitary Function in the Early Cold War.” Journal of Military History (July 2012).

“Amnesia to Anamnesis: Commemoration of the Dead at CIA.” Studies in Intelligence (September 2008).

Chaired panel “Reagan’s Use of Intelligence” at the conference on “Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold War,” Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, November 2, 2011.